Sorbonne, Talleyrand at, 402
reforming council desired by, 70
Sorel, historian of Revolution, 489
Sostegno, Alfieri di, 182
South America as a field for French
enterprise, views of Napoleon
III. on, 152-3
Southern States of Germany, Francis
Joseph's suggestion as to, 211
French hopes from, 213, 238 ; ad-
hesion of, to Prussia, 238
position of, after war of 1866., 227
Spain (see also Ferdinand of Aragon),
Bernhardi's mission to, 214 ;
invasion of, by Napoleon, ex-
tenuating reasons for, '446-7 ;
Papal grants to, of Africa and
America, 75 ; share of, in
Mexican affairs, 1861., 149-51
Spanish affairs, 1868, as affecting
France, 208, see also Leopold
of Hohenzollern.
Colonies in America, as contrasted
with the United States, 143-4 ;
eventual American annexation of,
anticipated, 172
Spencer, Herbert, George Eliot's in-
timacy with, 289 ; on her creed,
285 ; her transition of thought
not affected by, 280 ; tribute of,
to her powers, 303
his ignorance of Comte's views, 283
inspired by Baer, 287
Spicheren, battle at, 243
Spinoza, belief in doctrine of retribution,
286
George Eliot's transition of thought
not affected by, 280
translated by George Eliot, 301
views of, effect on George Eliot,
278
Sprengel, 333
Stadion, Count, 412
Stael, de, Madame, Talleyrand's rela-
tions with, 396, 397 ; and in-
debtedness to, 409
Stafileo, Bishop of Sebenico, favours the
Divorce, 22, 38
Stalin, Wirte?nbergische Geschichte, 374,
Stanhope, Lord, and Lord Houghton, in the Lords, 421 Stapfer, critic of Strauss, 363 State, greatness of, Cavour's views as to attaining and maintaining, 187 Statistics, fallacious ideas of Buckle re- garding, 316, 317, 318 Stein, 356, 444 Steins, Lorenz von, 380 Steindorff, 497 Steinmetz, with the army attacking Metz, 241 ; operations of, 243 et seq. Stenzel, 352 Stephens, voicing the Southern view of the negro, 136 Stephens, Morse, A History of the French Revolution, vol. ii., 491-5 on the constituent of democratic thinking, 438 inaccuracies rare in, 492 method of historical deduction, 491-5 Stolberg, Church History of, 367 Story, Justice, on majorities, and their due restriction, 133 Strasburg, positions dominated by war of 1870., 240; German forces directed against, 241 ; the siege, 242 ; the price of peace, 251 ; the fall of, 253, 493 Strategy, German, 1870., 241 Strauss, D. F. , 283, 342 belief in doctrine of retribution, 286 criticism of Hennell's book, An In- quiry concerning the Origin of Christianity, 277 religious revival called forth by books of, 278 Lebefi Jesu, motive of, 362 at Cologne, meeting and intercourse with George Eliot, 281; her translation of Lebe?i Jesu, 280 ; her later indifference to, 297 overshadowed by Feuerbach, 289 view on marriage, 291 Stuart, James, see Cloche, de la Stuart, the Lady Mary, 106 Stubbs, Dr. (Bishop of Chester), on sup- pression of individual opinions,
Succession, English necessity of provid- ing for, as bearing on Henry VIII. s Divorce, 9, 36 ; security of, importance of, to the nation,
Suchet, General, Talleyrand's opinion of, 398 Suffolk, Duke of, campaign of, in Picardy, 5 Sugenheim, reputation of, 501 Sweden, Christina, Queen of, 92 ; and de la Cloche, 96-100, 102 Swinburne, Algernon, lack of apprecia- tion of George Eliot's powers,
Switzerland, Bourbaki's troops disarmed in, 268 theological writers of, 367 Sybel, advocate of imperialism, 378 critic of Ranke, 357
